The mission is successful, but Rafe's and Danny's planes run out of fuel and crash in Japanese-occupied territory in China. Their mission is to bomb Tokyo, after which they will land in China. In April, the raiders are sent toward Japan on board USS Hornet. During the next three months, Rafe, Danny and other pilots train for ultra-short takeoffs with specially modified B-25 Mitchell bombers. Evelyn reassures Rafe she loved him in the past and will love him her whole life, but says she is ready to give Danny her "whole heart" and have their family together.ĭanny and Rafe are both promoted to captain and awarded the Silver Star for their actions at Pearl Harbor, and Doolittle asks them to volunteer for a secret mission. Before they leave, Evelyn reveals to Rafe that she is pregnant with Danny's child. Danny and Rafe are both assigned to travel stateside under Doolittle, though they are not told why. The survivors attend a memorial service to honor the numerous dead. The next day, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Day of Infamy Speech to the nation and requests that the US Congress declare a state of war with the Empire of Japan. They later assist in the rescue of the crew of the capsized USS Oklahoma, but are too late to save the crew of the obliterated USS Arizona. Rafe and Danny take off in P-40 fighter planes, and they shoot down several of the attacking planes. The US Pacific Fleet is severely damaged in the surprise attack, and most of the defending airfields are obliterated before they are able to launch fighters to defend the harbor. Next morning, on December 7, the Imperial Japanese Navy begins its attack on Pearl Harbor. They drive away, avoiding being put in the brig when the military police arrive at the bar. Danny finds a drunken Rafe in the bar with the intention of reconciling, but the two get into a fight. Rafe, in turn, discovers Danny's romance with Evelyn and leaves for the Hula bar, where he is welcomed back by his overjoyed fellow pilots. On the night of December 6, Evelyn is shocked to discover Rafe standing outside her door, having survived his downing and the ensuing months trapped in Nazi-occupied France. Meanwhile, Japan prepares to attack the US Pacific Fleet, deciding the best way to do so would be a decisive strike on the Pearl Harbor naval base. Danny and Evelyn mourn Rafe's death together, which spurs a romance between the two. During a mission to intercept a Luftwaffe bombing raid, Rafe is shot down over the English Channel and is presumed killed in action. Rafe shocks Evelyn by saying that he has joined the Eagle Squadron and is leaving the next day. Four weeks later, Rafe and Evelyn, now deeply in love, enjoy an evening of dancing at a nightclub and later a jaunt in the New York harbor in a borrowed police boat. A nurse named Evelyn Johnson passes Rafe's medical exam despite his dyslexia, and the two strike up a relationship. Doolittle informs Rafe that he has been accepted into the Eagle Squadron (an RAF outfit for American pilots during the Battle of Britain). In January 1941, with World War II raging, Danny and Rafe are both first lieutenants under the command of Major Jimmy Doolittle. In 1923 Tennessee, two best friends, Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker, play together in the back of an old biplane, pretending to be fighting airmen.
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